NOVEL WEB Ch. 10
Chapter 10: Dual Growth of Body and Spirit
There were many methods for the advancement of low-rank Transcendents: 【Advancement Rituals】, 【Spiritual Elixirs】, 【High-Rank Endowment】, and so on.
Yet, all these various advancement methods were essentially no different.
They all existed to break the Transcendent’s 【Energy-Level Shackle】, allowing the Transcendent to undergo a second round of development, regaining the ability to grow rapidly once more.
Once one understood this, things became simple—
White Crane explained:
“Treat the Energy-Level Shackle as a ‘water bottle,’ and treat your own attributes as ‘water.’”
“As long as you store enough ‘water,’ naturally you can burst the ‘water bottle’ and successfully break through to the next energy level.”
“This is your task for today.”
“Use the effect of growth skills to continuously strengthen your spirit until you advance.”
“…Ah?”
Jiang He was dumbfounded.
He had thought White Crane’s talk about breaking through the energy level meant there was some kind of special advancement method.
But in the end, it was just brute-forcing attributes? Forcing bricks to fly by sheer strength?
How was this any different from shoving an elephant into a refrigerator?
If breaking through bottlenecks was this simple, then why bother with so many advancement methods? Wouldn’t piling attributes be enough?!
“This is the simplest advancement method for now.”
“Like tomorrow’s Arc Light incident—you’ll only be facing a few weak Transcendent thugs.”
White Crane said calmly: “If you can’t even accomplish something this simple, then don’t bother thinking about changing the future… just hide like a coward.”
White Crane was clearly using provocation.
But Jiang He could feel the emotion of “disgust” in his words.
That emotion wasn’t necessarily directed at him, yet it made him think of the future White Crane had spoken of.
Jiang He’s excitement from changing professions cooled down. After a moment of silence, he spoke.
“I can do it.”
White Crane neither confirmed nor denied.
…
“Training Word-Spirit ability?”
After the Blood Refining ended, Jiang He bathed and changed clothes, then came outside the Blood Refining Chamber and told Wei Sheng that he wanted to train his Word-Spirit ability.
Wei Sheng thought for a moment and said: “The school hasn’t yet provided facilities specifically for Word-Spirit gifted students, but there is a special facility for spiritual-type students—the 【Meditation Room】.”
“The Meditation Room was built by an A-rank Transcendent. It uses the brain of a spiritual-type beast as its core, and it can quickly restore a student’s spiritual energy.”
“It can make up for your Word-Spirit consumption and help you train your Word-Spirit ability.”
A Transcendent facility built by an A-rank Transcendent?!
Jiang He couldn’t help but feel anticipation.
But when he followed Wei Sheng to the Meditation Room, he was disappointed to find that this classroom looked utterly ordinary—
In fact, since the spiritual field range of the beast brain was limited, it had been divided among multiple classrooms.
A single Meditation Room looked no more than a small study, with only a wooden platform and a cushion placed upon it.
Once they arrived, Wei Sheng told Jiang He to train in peace, then left the room to wait in the outside lounge.
After all, Wei Sheng wasn’t a Word-Spirit gifted student, nor had he ever come into contact with such a talent. If he tried to instruct forcibly, he might mislead instead, and he would even disrupt the Meditation Room’s spiritual field effect.
Better to let Jiang He slowly explore and practice on his own.
And indeed, that was the case.
After Wei Sheng left, Jiang He clearly felt the effect of the spiritual field surge.
His spiritual energy, which had nearly dried up, recovered at an extremely fast pace.
If converted into data, it was approximately—
“Recovery rate of 0.02 spiritual energy per second, fully restored to peak in 100 seconds.”
White Crane sat carelessly on the cushion.
“The Meditation Room can provide 1% spiritual energy recovery per second, effective up to C-rank Transcendents. For you right now, it’s more than enough.”
Right, he had forgotten there was also this second-cycle veteran here.
Having gone through all of this before, White Crane knew every facility in the school like the back of his hand.
At this moment, he occupied the only cushion, resting his chin on his hand, watching Jiang He.
Wei Sheng couldn’t teach, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t.
“You have two training methods right now.”
“First, keep using Word-Spirit, exhausting and strengthening your spirit until you break through the bottleneck.”
“Second, while using Word-Spirit, train your body as well—squeezing both body and spirit. That way, while your spirit breaks through its bottleneck, your body will also gain some increase in strength.”
Jiang He’s eyes widened in surprise: “Using Word-Spirit can also train physical strength?”
“Of course. This is an S-rank talent.”
White Crane said: “All you need to do is use Word-Spirit on yourself, add weight, and you can train your body indoors.”
“During this process, use Word-Spirit to communicate with your own cells and body. With Transcendent power, grant them the potential to become stronger, helping them recover rapidly… naturally, they won’t disappoint you.”
There was such a way of doing things?
Jiang He was stunned.
But it made sense—just like bathing in Transcendent blood, medicinal baths, or body-strengthening drugs.
The human body could indeed continuously increase in strength under the stimulation and amplification of Transcendent power.
According to White Crane’s explanation, Word-Spirit simply replaced elixirs, using one’s own Transcendent ability to continuously strengthen the body…
After all, an S-rank Word-Spirit that could command all things couldn’t possibly be inferior to the lowest-level drugs, right?
The only problem was that using Word-Spirit already drained the spirit, and now if he also trained his body, draining stamina as well, it would undoubtedly be double torture!
Was he really going to do this?
Thinking of the bold words he had just spoken to White Crane, Jiang He clenched his teeth.
So, he spoke to his clothes.
「Heavy」
The Word-Spirit took effect.
The school uniform, originally light as a feather, instantly became as heavy as a mountain.
Facing such weight, even though Jiang He’s physical strength had already reached 2.8, he still felt a sudden heaviness.
With that force, he bent down and began squatting.
While squatting, he spoke to his body.
「Growth」
Under the stimulation of Transcendent power, the cells were strengthened, beginning to grow rapidly in a way that defied physiology.
At the same time, muscles tore under the pressure of weight and exercise, bringing pain.
Jiang He endured the pain and said.
「Heal」
Recovery, healing, tearing, growth!
Along with that, his spirit was continuously being drained, bringing a powerful sense of exhaustion.
In just a short while, Jiang He was already drenched in sweat, his face pale.
However, during this process—
The spiritual recovery provided by the Meditation Room was continuously converted by Word-Spirit into bodily growth, forming a dual supply.
Almost every single minute, he was constantly growing stronger!
【Bodily Growth, Body +0.05】
【Skill Triggered, Spirit +0.3】
【Profession Growth, Experience +1】
…
【Bodily Growth, Body +0.04】
【Skill Triggered, Spirit +0.2】
【Profession Growth, Experience +1】
【Profession Level Up: Rumor Bearer lv1 → Rumor Bearer lv2, gained 1 Rumor Bearer skill point】
As time passed, Jiang He’s mind gradually blanked. He nearly forgot the future White Crane had described, even the humiliations he had suffered before.
In this tormenting situation, attribute growth became his only driving force.
Instinctively, he sensed his bodily state, sensed every tiny change, sweat dripping as he almost roared.
“Body, break through your limits.”
「Growth」!
On the other side of the room, White Crane watched it all, the corner of his lips curving upward.